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Political Parties: Funding

My Lords, does the noble and learned Lord agree that although the Labour Party is in the dock this week, some distinctive and distinguished members of that party are particularly angry about the way in which they have been deceived in this affair? Problems with party financing have been going on for a long time—even before Lloyd George’s day and the Liberal Party. In future, will the Prime Minister desist from saying that his Government will be whiter than white, and say, ““greyer than grey””?